Word: mastermind
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...first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals at Oklahoma City's airport. The FBI did not want a repeat of the Ramzi Yousef debacle, when the accused mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing managed to flee the U.S. just hours after that attack...
...should be glad she kept both, for this mom-and-pop operation is really a mom-and-son. Carrie's younger brother Todd Fisher, 37, is the museum's multimedia mastermind and Reynolds' main support in her adventure. "Debbie's dream was contagious, and I caught the disease," says Fisher. "At one point she asked me, 'How can you take two years out of your life?' And I said, 'How could you take 18 years out of yours?' I figure it's a fair trade...
...York City. The connections have been detailed in recent weeks by Edwin Angeles, once Abu Sayyaf's military strategist, who surrendered to Philippine authorities in February after a falling out with his fellow fighters. Angeles, backed by military intelligence, has linked Abu Sayyaf with Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center attack...
...seems, is completely safe in Pakistan. On March 11, police quietly captured six men in the Islamist stronghold of Peshawar who had talked by telephone to Ramzi Yousef just before the accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was himself arrested in Pakistan and quickly extradited to the U.S. The six were suspected of conspiring with Yousef in his skein of terrorist plots, but only after they had been questioned last week did Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto learn that she too had been a target of the terrorists...
...first in recent memory that both involved foreigners in Karachi and were not connected directly with crime or sectarian strife. That led some diplomats in Karachi to speculate that the attackers were Islamic militants angry at Pakistan's extradition to the U.S. in February of Ramsi Yousef, suspected mastermind of New York City's 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Others suggest it may have been a deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came in the line of fire. Yet another theory...